Like so many other Anatolian strongholds , Nicaea had become Seljuk without a fight, and almost at Byzantine invitation. The Turks found themselves in possession of a still impressive city.

Light-hearted burgernomics has become a matter of increasing academic interest and has spawned many articles and even a whole book by Ong (2003) of the International Monetary Fund.

He’s really bitchy in the morning.

towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant